All Screen articles in 23 October 2000 – Page 2
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Indian film sector wins industry status
India's information and broadcasting minister, Sushma Swaraj, plans to grant the Indian film sector with "industry" status, thus enabling it to receive loans from banks and financial institutions. Indian films can now also be insured, as is the practice in the west. The move is part of the on-going corporatisation ...
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Sky Perfect tumbles 20% on market debut
Sky Perfect Communications, which operates the Sky PerfecTV communications satellite (CS) platform, made a disappointing debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's MOTHERS market for venture firms on Friday.On the first day of trading, October 20, Sky Perfect shares fell 20% from their pre-market price of $2.962 (Y320,000) to $2.083 (Y255,000) ...
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Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale seduces Summit
Summit Entertainment has taken international rights to Brian De Palma's next picture, the independently-financed noir thriller Femme Fatale, a $30m-$35m by Tarak Ben Ammar's Paris-based production company Quinta and Kirch/Mediaset European buying alliance Epsilon.Shooting is scheduled to start on the film in late November in Europe with Uma Thurman and ...
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Risk
Dir: Alan White. Australia. 2000. 92 mins.Prod co: MacGowan Films. Int'l sales: Beyond Films (61-2) 9281 1266. Exec prod: Marion Pilowsky. Prod: Marion MacGowan. Scr: John Armstrong, Steve Wright, based on the short story "The Adjuster" by Tracy Kidder. DoP: Simon Duggan. Prod des: Murray Picknett. Ed: Lee Smith. Mus: ...
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Help! I'm A Fish sinks competition in Denmark
Danish animation Help! I Am A Fish is currently storming the Danish box office, sinking local competitor Dancer In the Dark. Just two weeks after its release Help! I Am A Fish has achieved admissions of 177,243 and a gross of $915,945 (DKR8,101,536) from 60 screens. In comparison Lars von ...
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B4U signs Doordarshan supply deal
International Hindi movie channel B4U has signed a three-year contract with Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan to supply 35 big blockbusters to the national network. The two partners will share advertising revenues generated from broadcast of the movies. B4U, which claims to have built a subscriber base of more than 40,000 ...
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Germany picks No Place To Go for Oscars
No Place To Go (Die Unberuehrbare) has been selected as Germany's nominee for the foreign-language Oscar. The Export Union, which picked the film from eight candidates said: "The subject of reunification has never been portrayed in German cinema as succinctly and subtly differentiated as here". Directed by Oskar Roehler, the ...
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IAC, Bregman head for Goldcoast with Pacino
The UK's IAC Films is set to handle $65m drama The Goldcoast, starring Al Pacino, through a development and production venture with US producer Martin Bregman.The adaptation of a novel by Nelson Demille is to be directed by Harold Becker next summer in New York. Bregman's credits include Pluto Nash, ...
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Escape Artists ties up international partners
A group of international distributors comprising the UK's Momentum Pictures, Spain's Sogepaq, Italy's Eagle Pictures, Scandinavia's Egmont and Germany's Constantin have been confirmed as partners with the Steve Tisch Co and sales outfit Summit Entertainment in long-gestating production outfit Escape Artists.Some of the distributors are understood to taking equity ...
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Bread And Roses wins inaugural UIP Award
Ken Loach's Bread And Roses scooped the first ever UIP Award for best European film at this year's Rio International Film Festival. The award, voted for by the festival audience, is accompanied by a purse of Euros15,000.A total of 99 European films competed for the prize. Runners-up included Lars von ...
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Pathe, Amuse lured by Killing
Myriad Pictures has sold Chen Kaige's $30m Killing Me Softly to Pathe Distribution for the UK and Amuse Video for Japan. Gaga Communications will handle the film's Japanese theatrical release.Starting principal photography on October 30th in London, the erotic thriller stars Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes, with Natascha McElhone and ...
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Via Digital, ICO ink co-financing pact
Spain's national credit institute (ICO) has signed an agreement with digital satellite platform Via Digital and the Spanish producers federation (FAPAE) whereby ICO will make available up to $18m worth of credits for film and TV product to which the Telefonica-backed Via acquires rights.According to the terms of the agreement, ...
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Spain's Ono postpones flotation
Following an international trend, Spanish cable supplier Ono (Cableuropa) has announced that it will postpone its IPO, planned for Thursday, due to the "poor conditions" of stock markets globally.Ono planned to float at least 20% of its shares on the recently launched "New Market" index of the Spanish stock exchange, ...
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Asian, US titles lead EFA non-European film nods
Three Asian titles - Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood For Love and Edward Yang's Yi Yi - are among the six films to be nominated for the Screen International Award for non-European film at the European Film Awards (EFA). US titles Erin Brockovich, ...
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CanalSatellite hits 1.5 million subscribers mark
Canal Plus' French digital satellite platform CanalSatellite has reached the 1.5 million subscribers mark, and claims to be the first European digital satellite platform to show a profit.The DTH platform, launched in 1996 as an analogue service, currently offers some 200 channels. Recent additions to its line-up include film news ...
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Bac-Cryo tie-up bears fruit with Scary web-site
French distributor Bac Films has launched a fully interactive 3D web-site for Scary Movie, marking the first tangible result of its link-up with video game specialist Cryo Interactive. Scarymovie-lefilm.com provides information on the film's content and cast; trailers and extracts from "the making of"; and video games inspired by specific ...
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GMI's \'Uncensored\' Cuaron picture arouses Fox
On the eve of what promises to be a hectic two weeks of deal-making for Good Machine International (GMI) in both London and Milan, the New York sales operation, has sold the French, German, Swiss and Italian distribution rights to Alfonso Cuaron's sexually-unbridled Y Tu Mama Tambien to 20th Century ...
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USA Films to co-finance Zentropa horrors
USA Films is taking North American rights to a slew of horror pictures from Denmark's Zentropa, in return for stumping up 35% of the slate's combined budget. Produced by the Danish company's international arm, Zentropa Internationale, the films will be labelled Zentropa Zhillers, and range in budget from $3.5m to ...
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Mancini appointed Cinecitta general director
Italy's Cinecitta Studios has named Lamberto Mancini as its new general director, replacing Antonio More who had held the position for more than ten years.Mancini, 40, worked in business and marketing before becoming deputy general director of the Italian studio in June 1999. The appointment was voted in by Cinecitta ...
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Wright takes up acting head role at The Sales Co
Jane Wright, head of business development for BBC Films, is stepping in as acting chief executive at UK-based The Sales Co following Alison Thompson's decision to move to Pathe International.Wright, who has been a director of the company for two years, will join The Film Consortium chief executive Chris Auty, ...
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